LINDEN TREE. 
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in which two faithful hearts are inseparably 
united. 
Among the trees of central Europe, the Linden is 
known to attain the greatest age next to the Oak. 
Near Neustadt, on the Kocher, in Wirtemberg, 
there is a stately Linden, which for many centuries 
has attracted the notice of passengers, and invited 
them to rest in its shade. Its trunk is thirty-six 
feet in circumference. The branches issue from it 
at the height of eight to ten feet, in a horizontal 
direction, and are supported by pillars, partly of 
stone, partly of wood, otherwise they would break 
down by their own weight. In 1811, there were 
one hundred and twenty such pillars. This Linden 
has now withstood time and tempests for at least six 
hundred years. 
In the cemetery of the hospital of Annaberg 
in Saxony, there is a very ancient Linden tree, 
concerning which tradition relates that it was 
planted by an inhabitant of Annaberg with its 
top in the ground, and that its roots became 
branches, which now overshadow a considerable 
part of the cemetery. The planter of this tree, 
who was buried not far from it, left a sum of money, 
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